Early Morning Ruddy Turnstone.

[Daniel Cadieux]

It was such a treat photographing a few species of shorebirds in breeding plumage a couple of weeks ago, as these guys normally skip right over us in spring. This beautiful turnstone look so good in the warm light of the low sun.

Canon R6 + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2500s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, small crop for comp.

[Arthur Morris]

Sweet light and sharp. I miss the toes a bit.

with love, artie

[Jonathan Ashton]

Focus spot on and a really high quality image, colours are amazing.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Beautiful colors, the light really brings the best in this bird.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Dan .... love the deep tone and colors , the bokeh is killer . Perfect low POV !! Nicely done with right shallow DOF

TFS Andreas

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hi Dan, I echo all the positive comments. I am with Artie in missing the toes a bit, unfortunate that the sand got in the way. Thank you for sharing.

[Brian Sump]

Pretty much killer Daniel. I can see why this was such a special morning.

Light, perspective, feather detail just so sweet. A real joy to view, TY!

[William Dickson]

Loving the contrast here.....The light is amazing....Nice work Dan...the bird really stands out against the BG....

Will

[Gabriela Plesea]

Beautiful image Daniel, stunning light and colours, love the DoF and POV, magic !

Kind regards,